Poetical Dust : : Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain / / Thomas A. Prendergast.
In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women, primarily writers, poets, and playwrights, are interred, with many more memorialized. From the time of the reburial of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1556, the space has become a sanctuary where some of the mos...
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Prendergast, Thomas A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Poetical Dust : Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain / Thomas A. Prendergast. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015] ©2016 1 online resource (256 p.) : 19 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Haney Foundation Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Significance(s) of Poets’ Corner -- Chapter 1. Westminster Abbey and the Incorporation of Poets’ Corner -- Chapter 2. Melancholia, Monumental Resistance, and the Invention of Poets’ Corner -- Chapter 3. Love, Literary Publicity, and the Naming of Poets’ Corner -- Chapter 4. Absence and the Public Poetics of Regret -- Chapter 5. Poetic Exhumation and the Anxiety of Absence -- Coda -- Poets’ Corner Graveplan -- Poets’ Corner Alphabetical Burial and Monument List -- Chronological List of Stones and Monuments in the South Transept -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women, primarily writers, poets, and playwrights, are interred, with many more memorialized. From the time of the reburial of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1556, the space has become a sanctuary where some of the most revered figures of English letters are celebrated and remembered. Poets' Corner is now an attraction visited by thousands of tourists each year, but for much of its history it was also the staging ground for an ongoing debate on the nature of British cultural identity and the place of poetry in the larger political landscape.Thomas Prendergast's Poetical Dust offers a provocative, far-reaching, and witty analysis of Poets' Corner. Covering nearly a thousand years of political and literary history, the book examines the chaotic, sometimes fitful process through which Britain has consecrated its poetry and poets. Whether exploring the several burials of Chaucer, the politicking of Alexander Pope, or the absence of William Shakespeare, Prendergast asks us to consider how these relics attest to the vexed, melancholy ties between the literary corpse and corpus. His thoughtful, sophisticated discussion reveals Poets' Corner to be not simply a centuries-old destination for pilgrims and tourists alike but a monument to literary fame and the inevitable decay of the bodies it has both rejected and celebrated. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Authors and readers Great Britain History. Authors, English Tombs. Literary landmarks England London History. Literature and society Great Britain History. Poets, English Tombs. Literature (Scholarly). LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 9783110439687 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2015 9783110438673 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110665918 print 9780812247503 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291902 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812291902 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812291902/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Significance(s) of Poets’ Corner -- Chapter 1. Westminster Abbey and the Incorporation of Poets’ Corner -- Chapter 2. Melancholia, Monumental Resistance, and the Invention of Poets’ Corner -- Chapter 3. Love, Literary Publicity, and the Naming of Poets’ Corner -- Chapter 4. Absence and the Public Poetics of Regret -- Chapter 5. Poetic Exhumation and the Anxiety of Absence -- Coda -- Poets’ Corner Graveplan -- Poets’ Corner Alphabetical Burial and Monument List -- Chronological List of Stones and Monuments in the South Transept -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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